Lakshmi Srinivas

Lakshmi Srinivas is a sociologist and anthropologist. Her interests are in film and media, in stories and storytelling, urban life and the natural world. Lakshmi’s first monograph, House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience, based on fieldwork in Bangalore, is the first in-depth ethnography of cinema-going in India. Lakshmi teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has written numerous articles on cinema, film consumption and the lived culture of cinema in India.